Hive Young Writers’ Competition 2024/25
Full details
A writing competition for 14 to 30s from or based in Yorkshire, the nearby north & midlands
Poetry | Flash Fiction | Stories
Midnight 23rd Feb 2025
Age Categories: 14 – 16 | 17 – 19 | 20 – 30
[Individual & group/classes entries welcome]
Hive Young Writers’ Competition is open to young people, aged 14 to 30, with a home or term address in the north/midlands (as defined on this map) Whether stories or poetry (or both) are your thing, you can enter up to 2 pieces of work at any time before midnight 23rd Feb 2025.
There’s no set theme (the competition is completely open), we’re just looking for your best work. But we also want to offer some resources for those who might be looking for inspiration and guidance to help get you started (see below).
(Join our mailing list on our blog page here to get a reminder about the deadline a few weeks before).
Inspiration
If you’re after inspiration for either competition, to get you
writing or coming up with ideas, you’ll find a gallery of great photos here and lots of Get Writing Prompts & Tips to get you started and for sparking ideas in relation to them.
PRIZES
First Prizes: Kindle Fire HDs, professional feedback on work
& print publication | All 2nd & 3rd Place Winners: Book
vouchers, feedback & print publication | Highly Commended: Voucher
& invited to submit to a coming Hive anthology
Our Judges
SHORT STORY & FLASH FICTION
David Swann is a short story writer and poet. His novella, Season of Sweet Sorrow (Ad
Hoc Press, 2021), was named 2023 Rubery Book of the Year. The novella
is set on Morecambe Bay, where Dave lived for several years. It was
inspired by incidents he witnessed while working as a writer in
residence for the Arts Council of England in HMP Nottingham, where he
helped in the rehabilitation of lifers and long-term prisoners. The
residency also inspired Dave’s book, The Privilege of Rain (Waterloo
Press, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New
Work in Poetry. In 2017, Dave was awarded a doctorate for his PhD about
the role played by writing in the rehabilitation of offenders. David is a
Senior Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of
Chichester.
POETRY
Suzannah Evans is an award-winning poet and writer based in Sheffield. She has published two collections of poetry, Near Future and Space Baby,
with Nine Arches Press. Her first chapbook was a winner in the Poetry
Business Competition 2012, and she has a second, ‘Green’, forthcoming
with Bad Betty Press in
June 2024. Suzannah was a Gladstone Library writer in residence in
2019, and in 2021 she received a Northern Writers’ Award for poetry. Her
work asks difficult questions about the Earth, its beings, and what
lies ahead for them; how do we look to the future on a planet that’s
burning? How do we come to terms with our grief, and what can we believe
in?
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